PROSTITUTION

Prostitution

Prostitution is the business or practice of engaging in sexual relations, especially in a promiscuous way, in exchange for payment in money or other things of value. A person who works in this field is called a prostitute and is a kind of sex worker. Prostitution is one of the branches of the sex industry. The legal status of prostitution varies from country to country, from being permissible but unregulated, to an enforced or unenforced crime or to a regulated profession. Prostitution is sometimes referred to as "the world's oldest profession". Estimates place the annual revenue generated from the global prostitution industry to be over ...

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prostitution

Noun

  1. Engaging in sexual activity with another person in exchange for compensation, such as money or other valuable goods.
    Her addiction brought her to the point that prostitution was the only means she had to survive.
  2. Debasement for unworthy profit or motives.
    The television advertising job was a prostitution of the talents of one of the great writers of the century.


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